Education and work:1955-1966 School in Barnaul, Altai, Russia1967-1972 Biological Department of the Novosibirsk State University,
Novosibirsk, Russia1973-1977 Postgraduate studentship in Institute of Biology and Soil
Science of Far East Branch of Academy of Scienses of the USSR, Vladivostok,
Russia1977-1979 Laborant in Institute of Cytology and Genetics Siberian
Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk1979-2006 Research scientist (junior research scientist,
research scientist, senior research scientis) and Curator of mammals collection
in Zoological museum at Institute of Systematisc and Ecology of Animals
Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.

1980 Ph.D. Thesis at the Institute of Developmental Biology Academy
of Sciences of the USSR, Moskow, on "Immunogenetical analysis systematical
relationships in the family Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from fauna USSR",
research adviser prof. N.N.Vorontsov.

Research interestsEvolutionary zoology.Immunogenetic study of the antigenic divergence of Palaearctic rodents.Systematic and Taxonomy of wild mammals.Biodiversity mammals of Siberia.The use of collection in research and education.